Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-07-21
Superintendent Harper ON the National
Educational Association.

benefits from the association other thar
those offered by reduced rates on the
railroads and at hotels. | will IN ne
wise attempt to give any on time o
the work of the association other thar
to say that the papers and general dis
cussions were given by many of the
ablest educators, both men and women
in the United States, and that the
ground covered by them included every
department Of education from the
highest to the most Observation-Disclosures
gardeners, drawing masters and mis-
tresses. musical professors, manual
training advocates. Normal schoo
presidents, College presidents, state
University presidents. Indian and
Freedmen bureau officers and teach.
ers, doctors of law, doctors of philoso,
ply, doctors of divinity, and doctors of
so many degrees and titles that they
have to wind up the enumeration by
etc. All these people were there fol-
the purpose of throwing light on any
and all topics and theories old or new
that bear on the educational progress OF
the United States aud the American peo-
Pile. The papers read before the general
association and the different depart
ments will all be printed in book form
and sent to members of the association
in about four months. | have no doubt
that they may be procured by Others
by paying about 81 so. These books
are worth the money to any one inter-
ested in any line of educational work.
Several of the extensively circulated
Chicago papers, especially the daily
and tri-daily editions, took it upon
themselves to make light of nearly
everything that took place during the
session. Of course, great many funny
things occurred, for how could it be
otherwise when such large number OF
persons from all parts of the country,
many of whom had never before been
much away from their quiet country
and village homes, come together for
an educational holiday? The reporters
seemed to- forget, or not to be capable
of understanding the nature and i'm.
port of the sessions. They did moi
seem to possess mental calibre sufficient
to enable them to comprehend the Ian
guage and ideas of men whose ability
stands unquestioned by the educated
and enlightened world. But these re-
p0rters had to say something for their
papers aud so they amused themselves
and their readers by villainously con-
trived caricatures, creatures of their
own erratic imaginations, and accounts
of how the school ma'ams' bangs lost
| their beauty under the influence of q
broiling sun and crowded halls, and OF
the disposition strongly manifested by
them to patronize soda fountains, ice
cream parlors, HOoley's theatre and
| the Chicago opera house. The idea
seems to be quite prevalent that the
| light weight and small calibred fellows
have succeeded in creating and giving
to the outside world generally wholly
false idea of the high character and
national worth of this gathering. The
exhibit of the school work from the diff.
ferent states was excellent, aud the dis
play of drawings, compositions, arith'
metical. grammatical, historical, geo.
graphical, botanical work. astonishing
in quality and in quantity. Wisconsin
was accorded the second place in this
educational display, Illinois coming
first The city of Chicago having nearly
one-half as much population as tho
entire state of Wisconsin and
working directly under one Board
of Education with corps OF
sunerintendents and teachers can pro-
duce work that in quantity can be ex-
celled by but two or three cities in the
world, and Wisconsin is to be congratu-
! lated on the position acquired espec.
tally when the fact that Milwaukee and
several Of the larger cities made little
or no attempt at an exhibit.
"Was it hot down there" some one
asks Hot, | guess it was. Hot puts
the actual condition of the weather al.
together TOO mildly. Until one has
been in Chicago during heated tern
he never can understand why the city
has generally earned its reputation for
unalloyed wickedness. The average
Chicagoan has nothing whatever 10 fear
in the next world by way Of climate for
let him locate where he may the change
| from heated term in Chicago can
hardly fail to be quite agreeable. How
| in the world people can work in bitches
aud drains running along the sides OF
the streets in Chicago when the wealth
er is so intensely hot and still not suffer
| from overheatiug is more than can un-
derstand. Many of the visitors put 10
a good deal of their time visiting the
numerous parks surrounding the city.
| The most notable of these are Lincoln,
South and Washington. Tho July races
were in full blast in Washington park
but there were very few of the teachers
whe seemed interested in fast horses.
The floral decorations and the animals
10 South parks together with the I'M
surpassed drives proved the chief attrac-
tioas and we'll do they repay for the
| time spent in them. The street cars
were generally patronized and by no
other means can one go 50 far for so
little money, the everyday nickle an.
swering for the fare in every case.
! The Pullman building near the ex-
position through the kindness of the
managers gave mul,itudes of teachers
IA fine view of the city from probably
the highest available point in it. An
elevator, one OF the swift kind, takes
you to the upper story Of the building
and then you can climb the several adj
ditional stories in . tower built out on
a corner. From this point one may
easily look down on the CITY and as far
out over it and the lake as the haze and
the smoke will allow. The elevated ex.
perience is quite novel particularly the
going down part of it. The sensation
is very peculiar aud not altogether
pleasant, the chief sensation being one
that raises a strong doubt in ones mind
as to bis ability TO retain his stomach.
But still when you go TO Chicago don't
fail to see the city from this point oi
| view; you will never regret it.
| The Board of Trade is place worthy
of an hours visit The racket and
general noise is something terrible. II
the inmates of state insane hospital
were all turned loose and each one i'm
agining himself the captain of country
base ball nine PLAYING for prize on
the Fourth of July, the noise would
not be any more incomprehensible "a
the locker on than that made by the
dealers in "short ribs" corn" and
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